Coming to Our Animal Senses
Big Picture Science
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Is Mantis Shrimp Particularly Colorful?
A Mantis shrimp has the capacity to detect many, many different wavelengths of light. The calculations or the computation of what those wavelengths mean to the Mantis shrimp are more complex than say our brains do when we compute the information from our retinas. They're just amazing reds, greens, blues, just an amazing range of reds and blues and greens too. And the different kinds of photo receptor molecules that they have in their eyes are probably tuned to detecting these different colors for recognition of different species but also perhaps very important in mating.
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